Robert Delaunay Quotes

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.

The creative processes are so mysterious.

I'm a creator at heart.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

It's so difficult to actually come up with ideas that you really fall in love with, you know? That's the most difficult thing about filmmaking - and that's my main challenge in life.

Creative instinct is personal.

This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.